Talking Points

May 22nd, 2019Law partner Raizel Davidow, writing for Medicalbrief, asks whether the poor handling of the administrative side of the practice lead a medical practitioner to a Health Professions Council of SA finding of unprofessional conduct?
Davidow,...

May 15th, 2019Both researchers and medical schools have tried to figure out how doctors should communicate with patients to deliver hard-to-swallow information. There is little evidence that they are getting it right.
“I’m afraid I have some bad...

May 15th, 2019More doctors are being attacked online for recommending parents vaccinate their children as part of a coordinated effort by anti-vaccine groups. Fictitious patient reviews are just one tactic.
Dr Monique Tello was attending a medical conference...

May 8th, 2019Ejiao is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine that supposedly treats anaemia, reproductive issues and insomnia – though the alleged medicinal properties are unproven. Nonetheless, it's an ingredient in tonics and face creams. Sales of the...

May 1st, 2019
The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is the largest study of people who have gone through the transgendering process, providing data on the best treatments and outcomes.
Sara Readon writes in...

April 24th, 2019Older women are being exploited by IVF clinics “trading on hope”, the UK’s fertility watchdog has warned.
The Daily Telegraph quotes Sally Cheshire, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as saying those seeking...

April 24th, 2019There is now evidence that around 5% of people may wake up on the operating table, according to a report on Wellcome's Mosaic site. Although, due to the amnesiac effects of the drugs, most of them will be unable to remember anything about the...

April 24th, 2019Despite doubling salaries, Romania has lost 43,000 doctors and more than a fifth of its population since joining the European Union in 2007, reports The Guardian
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Gabriela Dumitru was supposed to retire years ago, but instead, she’s...

The growth in medical malpractice litigation has seen an array of new insurance products come onto the market, writes Stephen Coan for MedicalBrief.
“An explosion” is how Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the mushrooming number...Talking Points

Delegates from governments and civil society organisations, attending a global forum on fair pricing and access to medicines, have called for greater transparency around the cost of research and development as well as production of medicines, to...Talking Points

By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth, writes Bob Mash, in the division of family medicine and primary care at Stellenbosch University in The...Talking Points

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern. CNN reports that this is according to Robert Steffen, chair of the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Health...

April 10th, 2019Health-e News unpacks the health care promises of the major parties in the run-up to May 8's general election.
The ANC’s much-contested National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme has been a talking point for politicians in South Africa for close...

April 10th, 2019A drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, is quietly spreading across the globe, reports The New York Times. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has added it to a list of germs...

April 10th, 2019The UN is being urged to declare a full-scale humanitarian emergency in Venezuela in the light of the “utter collapse” of its health system and widespread food shortages, reports The Daily Telegraph. A major report by Human Rights Watch and...

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